Photo by Craig Mellish  
Margaret Shepardson-Legere  


Margaret Shepardson-Legere is currently an assistant eEditor on a six-part series about the lives of Theodore, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. Recently, she completed work as the assistant editor on the two-part film, The Tenth Inning, an update to the 1994 nine-part series, Baseball.

While completing her degree in communications/film at Fitchburg State College she began an internship at Florentine Films. Upon graduation she was hired on as the apprentice editor for the film Mark Twain and as the assistant editor for the short version of the film produced for the Mark Twain House in Hartford, Connecticut. Margaret then went on to work in the photo research department for the film Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson. She was an assistant editor and assistant sound editor on the six-part series, The National Parks: America’s
Best Idea,
for which she and the sound editing team received an Emmy nomination for “Outstanding Sound Editing”. She also was the sound effects editor for its supplementary companion piece funded by the Evelyn & Walter Haas Jr. Fund.

She lives with her family in Gardner, MA.